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<span class="side-title">About Scrumdidilyumptious</span>

<p>Scrumdidilyumptious is a tool that lets you express relationships between webpages (or any two resources accessible by URLs). Scrumdidilyumptious is an experiment to see if a free-tagging / folksonomy approach to expressing relations can be successful at a large scale where a variety of concept mapping and other relation-expression tools have failed.</p> 
	
<p>Del.icio.us, Flickr, and a host of other tools bucked the notion that people hate metadata and won't tag / describe web resources. What they showed, in fact, was that what people actually hate are controlled vocabularies - not metadata or the idea of tagging - and that people are actually quite motivated to tag resources when they can choose the tags themselves. Tagging for yourself provides immediate value to you, and so the economics of folksonomic metadata are right where the economics of other schemes have been wrong in the past. (Oh yea, and there's also this minor network effect that kicks in when lots of people are creating and sharing metadata creating even more value for users.)</p>

<span class="side-title">Technology</span>

<p>Scrumdidilyumptious is powered by <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a>, and holy cow! It rocks!</p>

<span class="side-title">The Name</span>

<p>Scrumdidilyumptious is simultaneously a reference to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141301155/103-3403828-2861446?v=glance&n=283155">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a> and to <a href="http://del.icio.us/">delicious</a>.</p> 

<span class="side-title">Who's Behind It?</span>

<p>Scrumdidilyumptious is primarily the work of Justin Ball and David Wiley. <a href="http://justinball.com/">Justin</a> is a PhD student in <a href="http://inst.usu.edu/">Instructional Technology</a> at Utah State University and a software engineer with the <a href="http://cosl.usu.edu/">Center for Open and Sustainable Learning</a> at USU. <a href="http://opencontent.org/blog/">David</a> is an Associate Professor of <a href="http://inst.usu.edu/">Instructional Technology</a> and Director of the <a href="http://cosl.usu.edu/">Center for Open and Sustainable Learning</a>. Scrumdidilyumptious began life as an independent study project.</p>

<p>We hope you like scrumdidilyumptious! If you know how we can make it better, please <a href="/contact">let us know</a>.</p>
